Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: USN-1785-1 Moderate: Poppler DoS Threat

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April 2, 2013

Applications using poppler could be made to crash or possibly run programs as your login if they opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

Applications using poppler could be made to crash or possibly run programs

as your login if they opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- poppler: PDF rendering library

Details:

It was discovered that poppler contained multiple security issues when

parsing malformed PDF documents. If a user or automated system were tricked

into opening a crafted PDF file, an attacker could cause a denial of

service or possibly execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user

invoking the program.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ubuntu poppler

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.10:
  libpoppler-glib8                0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2
  libpoppler28                    0.20.4-0ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libpoppler-glib8                0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1
  libpoppler19                    0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
  libpoppler-glib6                0.16.7-2ubuntu2.1
  libpoppler13                    0.16.7-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  libpoppler-glib4                0.12.4-0ubuntu5.3
  libpoppler5                     0.12.4-0ubuntu5.3

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
  libpoppler-glib2                0.6.4-1ubuntu3.6
  libpoppler2                     0.6.4-1ubuntu3.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.